Re: [gentoo-user] please explain this contradictory(?) emerge dependency
On Sun, Dec 18 2011, Allan Gottlieb wrote: I get dependency problems in my normal update world that I can't understand. The entire output is below. As far as I can tell gnome-2.32.1-r1 (which is installed) is requiring packages from gnome-3, which must be wrong. I don't see any such dependencies in the ebuild for gnome-2.32.1-r1 and there is an official mask list (which I am using) for those of us who want to delay installing gnome-3 for a while. My conclusion that gnome-2... is requiring gnome-3 packages (which I know is wrong) comes from two points in the output below. 1. The indenting of the --tree --verbose output seems to say this (e.g., the first two lines say gnome-2... depends on nautilus-3) 2. The comments related to mask changes at the bottom say evince-3... is required by gnome-2... Please help. thanks, allan A new bug just appeared on bugs.gnome.org that may be related #395173 allan
Re: [gentoo-user] please explain this contradictory(?) emerge dependency
On Sun, Dec 18, 2011 at 8:34 PM, Allan Gottlieb gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: I get dependency problems in my normal update world that I can't understand. The entire output is below. As far as I can tell gnome-2.32.1-r1 (which is installed) is requiring packages from gnome-3, which must be wrong. I don't see any such dependencies in the ebuild for gnome-2.32.1-r1 and there is an official mask list (which I am using) for those of us who want to delay installing gnome-3 for a while. My conclusion that gnome-2... is requiring gnome-3 packages (which I know is wrong) comes from two points in the output below. 1. The indenting of the --tree --verbose output seems to say this (e.g., the first two lines say gnome-2... depends on nautilus-3) 2. The comments related to mask changes at the bottom say evince-3... is required by gnome-2... Please help. thanks, allan Without doing any digging (I'm 100mi away from my Gentoo boxes and sitting on satellite internet, so SSH is painful), I would presume the packages pulling in those dependencies aren't specifying a maximum version, so it's not that they're requiring gnome 3 packages, they're requiring gnome packages and are choosing to use the newest, which happens to be part of 3, meaning the gnome 2 ebuilds would need updated to require version 3.0 to avoid it automatically, and possibly block on mixing 2 and 3 if the mixing really does give issues. In /etc/portage/package.mask (untested, for the aforementioned reasons), add: =gnome-base/nautilus-3 =app-text/evince-3 -- Joshua M. Murphy Poison [BLX]
Re: [gentoo-user] please explain this contradictory(?) emerge dependency
On Sun, Dec 18 2011, Joshua Murphy wrote: On Sun, Dec 18, 2011 at 8:34 PM, Allan Gottlieb gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: I get dependency problems in my normal update world that I can't understand. The entire output is below. As far as I can tell gnome-2.32.1-r1 (which is installed) is requiring packages from gnome-3, which must be wrong. I don't see any such dependencies in the ebuild for gnome-2.32.1-r1 and there is an official mask list (which I am using) for those of us who want to delay installing gnome-3 for a while. My conclusion that gnome-2... is requiring gnome-3 packages (which I know is wrong) comes from two points in the output below. 1. The indenting of the --tree --verbose output seems to say this (e.g., the first two lines say gnome-2... depends on nautilus-3) 2. The comments related to mask changes at the bottom say evince-3... is required by gnome-2... Please help. thanks, allan Without doing any digging (I'm 100mi away from my Gentoo boxes and sitting on satellite internet, so SSH is painful), I would presume the packages pulling in those dependencies aren't specifying a maximum version, so it's not that they're requiring gnome 3 packages, they're requiring gnome packages and are choosing to use the newest, which happens to be part of 3, meaning the gnome 2 ebuilds would need updated to require version 3.0 to avoid it automatically, and possibly block on mixing 2 and 3 if the mixing really does give issues. All the gnome-3 packages are masked (package.mask). Indeed, at the end of my output (see prev msg) you see recommendations from emerge for me to remove some masks. allan
